Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

About Us
Capital Farm Credit is the largest rural lending cooperative in Texas serving 192 counties through nearly 70 credit offices. With over $12 billion in assets and more than 600 team members we provide essential financial services to farmers ranchers rural homeowners and agribusinesses. As part of the nationwide Farm Credit System we are dedicated to supporting rural communities and agriculture.

Why Join Us
We seek motivated individuals who share our core values: commitment trust value and family-like respect. As a customer-owned cooperative we align employee success with member success offering competitive pay growth opportunities and a supportive environment.

Our Benefits:

• Incentive Program: Company-wide goals-based rewards.
• Accrued Time Off: Earn 13 days of annual leave and 15 days of sick leave per year plus enjoy 10-12 paid holidays annually.
• Retirement: 401(k) with up to 9% employer contribution/match.
• Health Coverage: Affordable medical dental and vision plans.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Life & Disability Insurance: Employer-paid coverage.
• Education & Wellness: Tuition reimbursement and up to $400 for wellness expenses.

At Capital Farm Credit youll find more than a jobyoull find purpose.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in infrastructure cloud or platform engineering including at least 4 years specializing in Microsoft Azure.
• One to three years of leadership or people management experience with a demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and manage enterprise platform environments.
• Expertise in Azure tenant governance Microsoft Entra ID networking Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and cloud platform operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles including Zero Trust architecture identity and access management and encryption and key management.
• Experience within a regulated industry preferably banking or financial services with exposure to audits and regulatory examinations is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to design implement and validate disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for mission-critical systems along with exceptional communication skills to effectively present technical concepts risks and trade-offs to senior leadership.
• Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert or Azure Security Engineer Associate and security or governance certifications such as CISSP CCSP or CISM. FinOps Certified Practitioner certification is a plus.

JOB SUMMARY

• The Cloud Platform Engineering Manager is the designated owner and single point of accountability (DRI) for Capital Farm Credits (CFC) Microsoft cloud platform spanning the Azure and Microsoft 365 environments (including Exchange Online SharePoint Online OneDrive and Teams). This leader is accountable for the security posture reliability governance cost and engineering of these environments ensuring they meet the regulatory and operational expectations of a financial institution.

• This hands-on leadership role pairs deep Azure and Microsoft 365 expertise with clear ownership. The Manager sets platform direction within the strategy established by Senior IT Leadership supports the engineering and operations staff who run the platform and serves as CFCs primary technical authority on Azure and Microsoft 365. They partner closely with Information Security Risk Compliance Audit and application teams including on the data governance retention and information-protection controls (e.g. Microsoft Purview) across the M365 estate advise the SVP on cloud risk investment and strategy and escalate decisions beyond the platforms defined authority.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Own the design governance and lifecycle of the Azure tenant and full M365 suite aligned with the Azure Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks.
• Define and enforce guardrails standards and reference architecture through policy-as-code and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Own enterprise identity within the tenant (Microsoft Entra ID) including conditional access privileged access and least-privilege RBAC.
• Maintain the platform roadmap and prioritize work in alignment with the CFCs IT strategy.
• Own the security posture of the tenant in partnership with Information Security applying Zero Trust and defense-in-depth controls.
• Ensure encryption in transit and at rest robust key and secrets management (Azure Key Vault HSM-backed keys) and continuous monitoring (Microsoft Defender for Cloud Sentinel Purview).
• Ensure the tenant satisfies applicable requirements (e.g. FFIEC guidance GLBA SOX PCI-DSS and relevant state/federal regulations) and support internal/external audits and regulatory examinations.
• Own remediation of cloud-related audit and examination findings within agreed timelines.
• Own availability performance and reliability of the platform against defined SLAs/SLOs.
• Design document and regularly test high-availability backup disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP) capabilities including recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
• Establish observability alerting incident management and on-call practices; lead major-incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Operate change release and configuration management in line with the CFCs frameworks.
• Own cloud cost management for the tenant budgeting forecasting optimization and chargeback.
• Manage the operational relationship with Microsoft and relevant MSP/third-party vendors including support reservations and licensing.
• Support third-party risk activities for cloud vendors with TPRM and procurement.
• Lead mentor and develop cloud platform engineering and operations staff.
• Advise the SVP and senior stakeholders on cloud risk investment and trade-offs; escalate decisions beyond the roles authority.
• Partner with Security Risk Compliance Audit and application teams to deliver secure compliant and reliable services.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Experience migrating regulated workloads from on premises/data center environments to Azure.
• Familiarity with the broader Microsoft ecosystem (Microsoft 365 Defender suite Sentinel Purview) and hybrid connectivity.
• FinOps experience and demonstrated cloud cost optimization at scale.
• Experience supporting risk committees auditors or regulators.
• Experience building and managing SOC2 certifications
• Ownership takes single-threaded accountability for outcomes and sees issues through to resolution.
• Technical authority deep current Azure expertise with sound architectural and risk judgment.
• Security and risk mindset treats security compliance and resilience as first-class design constraints.
• Leadership builds high-performing teams and earns trust across technical and business stakeholders.
• Operational discipline drives reliability repeatability and accountability through process and automation.

DISCLAIMER

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex race color religious creed national origin physical or mental disability protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please contact us by email at and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address. For more information view the EEO - Know Your Rights and Pay Transparency Statement.

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Equal Opportunity Statement
Capital Farm Credit is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The position title and requirements may be adjusted based on the candidates experience and qualifications. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race color gender religion national origin disability veteran status or any other protected status. A full job description is available upon request. Candidates selected for hire will be required to complete a background check including criminal history education verification and employment verification. A credit check will be required for roles that require NMLS registration.